Investing in retirement is much different than investing during your working career. During your working career you can add money to your individual company 401(k) retirement plan account every year. Your company also matches your retirement plan contributions each...
I was up way too late the other night watching cable TV. I guess that I am too old to figure out how to watch TV on my computer. I came across a documentary on professional players. One of the poker players interviewed made a great point about poker strategy. I see...
With two teen-age kids, there is no shortage of opportunities for me to interact with local parents. There is school, sports, or social events on my calendar every week. Many times during parent conversations, the topic of investing comes up. I know where all the...
I have heard multiple Minnesota individual investors that I have met with tell me about their deep seated feelings of their stock market investments being totally out of their understanding and control. There seems to be a nagging feeling by individual investors of...
Last Saturday, May 18, 2013, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a commencement speech to this year’s graduates of Bard Collage at Simon’s Rock in Barrington, Massachusetts. As part of my regular Saturday morning reading, I happened to come across the...
